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Part B<br />

Directions: Read the text and study the graphic on the following pages, answer the multiple-choice questions,<br />

and write a response based on the situation described below. You may use the margins to take notes as you read<br />

and scrap paper to plan your response.<br />

The Situation: Your school’s athletic department is planning its budget<br />

and has asked for student input. You have decided to write a letter to your<br />

school’s athletic department recommending that lacrosse be a part of the<br />

school’s sports program.<br />

Your Task: Using relevant information from both documents, write a letter to your school’s<br />

athletic department in which you recommend that lacrosse be a part of the school’s sports<br />

program. Write only the body of the letter.<br />

Guidelines:<br />

Be sure to<br />

• Tell your audience what they need to know about lacrosse<br />

• Recommend reasons why lacrosse should be a part of the school’s sports program<br />

• Use specific, accurate, and relevant information from the text and the graphic to<br />

support your recommendations<br />

• Use a tone and level of language appropriate for a letter to your school’s athletic<br />

department<br />

• Organize your ideas in a logical and coherent manner<br />

• Indicate any words taken directly from the text by using quotation marks or<br />

referring to the author<br />

• Follow the conventions of standard written English<br />

Comp. Eng. — Session One – Aug. ’08 [5] [OVER]

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